{"id":45406,"date":"2025-03-11T04:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45406"},"modified":"2025-03-11T04:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:16:44","slug":"philippines-ex-president-rodrigo-duterte-arrested-on-international-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45406","title":{"rendered":"Philippines ex-President Rodrigo Duterte arrested on international warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Manila, Philippines<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The office of the President of the Philippines has reported the arrest of the country\u2019s ex-President Rodrigo Duterte after receiving a request from the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duterte was taken into custody on Tuesday at Manila airport upon his arrival from Hong Kong, according to the Philippine government, which received the request through the Interpol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duterte is facing allegations of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d during a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/3\/5\/left-behind-families-look-to-icc-for-philippines-drug-war-justice\">brutal anti-drugs drive<\/a>&nbsp;while he was in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His so-called \u201cwar on drugs\u201d, while he was president from 2016-2022, deprived suspects of \u201cdue process under the law\u201d, according to the arrest warrant, and resulted in the deaths of thousands of people,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2017\/12\/2\/the-philippines-when-the-police-kill-children\">including children<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defending his actions amid reports of his possible arrest, Duterte had previously said that he \u201cdid everything\u2026for the Filipino people\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s really my fate in life, that\u2019s OK, I will accept it. There\u2019s nothing I can do about it. If I\u2019m arrested, if I\u2019m jailed, so be it,\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: Manila, Philippines\u00a0\u2013 The office of the President of the Philippines has reported the arrest of the country\u2019s ex-President Rodrigo Duterte after receiving a request from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Duterte was taken into custody on Tuesday at Manila airport upon his arrival from Hong Kong, according to the Philippine government, which received the request through the Interpol. Duterte is facing allegations of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d during a&nbsp;brutal anti-drugs drive&nbsp;while he was in office. His so-called \u201cwar on drugs\u201d, while he was president from 2016-2022, deprived suspects of \u201cdue process under the law\u201d, according to the arrest warrant,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45408,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45406\/revisions\/45408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}